Quote quiz
 

Two questions.

1. Who wrote it?

2. What car did he or she build?

The quote:

"Some time ago, it occured to me that the motor car as we see it today is a wasteful product, in that large proportions of available horsepower are wasted in overcoming head-wind resistance and, having done that, in drawing forward the vehicle against the pull of the air as it closes in behind the rear of the car.

"Indeed, with the exception of a few specially streamlined racing cars, in my opinion conventional motor vehicles must be regarded as unscientific objects from the point of view of economical propulsion."

Ford. Model T.

Were you hired to quiz us?

Not even close. With either!

I prefer to get 1st place or crash out.

Was it the car builder who said:

"The eternal is omniembracing and permeative; and the temporal is linear. This opens up a very high order of generalizations of generalizations. The truth could not be more omni-important, although it is often manifestly operative only as a linear identification of a special-case experience on a specialized subject."

??

Hans Ledwinka with his "Tatraplan" or Ferdinand Porsche with the Beetle?

Not as far as I am aware!

Edit: that sounds like Buckminster Fuller, and it wasn't him.

Good guesses, but no.

The term "motor car" suggests the person is not American and/or lived before our time.

That dood that says "fool cells"?

Sorry, I have no idea what that means. So probably ‘no’.

The Tesla guy calls fuel cells "fool cells."

quote
 

' never seen it.

I picked a quote that captured his style without using the most pertinent one.

""There are over 2 million cars standing in front of red lights with their engines going. Then we have over 2 million times approximately 100 horsepower being generated as they are idling there, so that we have something like 200 million horses jumping up and down and going nowhere."

Bucky.........
 

Wow! That's brain candy if there ever was !:D

Pre-electric though.

Ok time for a clue.

The writer of the quote was well known at the time for being associated with another form of transport that was well streamlined.

Norman Bel Gedes?

Ned Zeppelin!

No, good pick-up from my clue, but no.

Sort of.

Fred Zeppelin!

Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin

Nope. But getting warmer.

Warmer? Hindenburg?
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Paul Jaray

The Czechoslovakian 1934 Tatra 77 (T77)

Hmm, Jaray. A man who 'cut his aerodynamic teeth' on airship design.

But no, not Jaray.

Rumpler, Tropfenwagen?

Nope!

OK, time for another clue (more a clarification of what may have been already surmised):

The writer of the quote was involved with airships.

Time for another two clues.

While involved with 1930s airships, he (the author of the quote) was in fact English.

And:

The airship he was involved with had one of my favourite novelists as a mathematical calculator on the project.

This is a fascinating area of history I knew next to nothing about; I think the answer is Barnes Wallis (and the author is Neville Shute). But I can't find any information on Wallis' design for a car, if it is him....

Bugatti? Kamm? Schlor? Eiffel? Prandtl?

Barnes Wallis:
Interesting. Walther Bauersfeld opened his (2nd?) geodesic planetarium in 1926.

Sir Dennistoun Burney?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streamline_Cars
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...mlined_Car.png

You, sir, are the winner!

Yes, Sir Dennistoun Burney and that picture is of his car.

Yay for me!

What's the prize?

The joy of being the winner is a prize in itself....

FREE BOOK! FREE BOOK! ...

I have to pay for my copies, so that isn't going to happen!

I can use joy more than another book. :thumbup: